Archive for February, 2010
Aside from the continuing use of the annoying “save the planet” meme (the planet will be fine – it’s really “save the humans from an ugly step-down crash”) this is a great talk that Adam Werbach just gave recently tothe Teens Turning Green conference. Adam is the Global CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi, author of [...]
FINALLY, my jet pack is here.
I haven’t outsourced my inbox yet like Tim Ferriss has. I still do it myself. So every time I hit Inbox Zero, I thank my friend Alex Samuel from Social Signal for her tweeting about her own inbox zero success. I used to have 3000+ emails in my inbox and another 20,000 somewhere in the [...]
Honda’s new one person Electric motorcycle. WANT. More info here.
Techvibes and I released “BC’s Cloud Computing Ecosystem – A Comprehensive List” today. Please leave comments, tell me what I missed, make suggestions, debate my definitions of cloud, or whatever else. More than anything, please come and join the conversation. And if you click through the link at the bottom, it will take you from [...]
Check out the graph that “Sleep Cycle” generated for me last night. Cool.
Watch these in this order. They’re like peanut butter and jam. Perfect. Kevin Kelly tells the epic story of technology from the birth of the universe until now. Then Bill Gates asks for his one big wish for humanity’s technological development: an energy miracle to help the poorest 2 billion people on the planet thrive.
Jamie Oliver pleads with us to stop killing our kids with crappy food: www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html Blaise Aguera y Arcas will blow your mind with the next generation of augmented reality mapping tools. Makes Google Maps look like crayons and paper. www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html Running more effective board meetings. Not rocket science but good basic article. www.cloudave.com/link/running-more-effective-board-meetings-at-startups It turns [...]
(EDIT: I said Milton Friedman who is of course, no longer with us, may he rest in peace. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.) Thomas L. Friedman wrote an excellent post over here at the NY Times pleading with the climate folks to go on offense with a simple 50 page grade six [...]
Check out the newly launched Climate Action Plan Indicators tool from the City of Berkeley that is based on Vancouver’s own Visible Strategies‘ “See-It” application. It allows all of the stakeholders to have a dashboard that lets them input their goals, and then track their progress towards those goals. Congrats VS team and City of [...]
I found an awesome PPT deck today called How to Optimize Your SaaS Revenue Streams – Rackspace SaaS & Cloud 2010. How to Optimize Your SaaS Revenue Streams – Rackspace SaaS & Cloud 2010 View more presentations from Lincoln Murphy. Its authors Lincoln Murphy and Justin Pirie do a great job of articulating the high [...]
Strap-on tank converts a car into a true all-terrain vehicle from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine I wanted another Subaru until I saw THIS baby! Forget the Subaru. Maybe an old Yugo?
I thought that this quote below from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, at the Mobile World Congress was critically new and interesting in terms of being a piece of evidence that we’ve tipped over from desktop to mobile as the dominant delivery channel: Earlier Schmidt used his first ever keynote speech at the world’s largest [...]
Cool looking little commuter concept car from Rinspeed. Cute! It’s like a pug. Imagine owning a pug dog and a Rinspeed? They’d be the perfect Yaletown accoutrements. Rinspeed UC: Want to Get More Miles Out of Your Electric Car? Take It on a Train | Technomix | Fast Company.
